Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would examine me?" he used to ask...
Soon in this new undeclared war a U.S. warship may sink or capture a Nazi sea or surface raider. And soon, if more U.S. merchantmen are sunk, the President must ask that merchant ships be armed. The Neutrality Act now forbids their carrying any arms beyond officers' pistols, but at the White House this week the President discussed with his Congressional advisers the advisability of asking Congress for a repeal of this section of the Act. Although no decisions were reached, this conference foreshadowed events to come. Eventually the Neutrality Act must be whittled down to the size...
...drafted, and you still don't believe this--just ask the Economics Department...
...second telegram (unsigned) read: "If German or Italian planes fly over Levant, please refrain from any reply. If any of these planes alight on your fields, receive them and ask instructions. British planes must be attacked at any cost...
Instead of running the girls out of town, San Antonio officials ask to see their health papers, pack them off to the clinic. The system is vastly different from the old European routine of slipshod examinations and yellow passports: in San Antonio the girls are given modern treatment. On the second floor they fill out records telling a few facts about their customers. Then they are given a blood test. If infected, they are treated at once to make the diseases non-catching. For gonorrhea, they get sulfathiazole tablets; for syphilis, slow injections of neoarsphenamine and bismuth. Even...